Another year of our life in
this world has come to an end. We are stepping into a new year heading slowly
toward a new world more beautiful, more peaceful and more serene than this
world. We have no idea when and how we will be able to see our God our Lord of
the Day of Judgment, but we are confident that He is Merciful, Gracious and
Forgiving.
This world, this earthly life is also beautiful. God has created eye-catching
and bewitching scenes all around us. He has bestowed innumerable blessings on us
in the shape of parents, relatives, friends, children, wealth, health and many
many more. But alas! we have been very unthankful to Him. We remained absorbed
in running after more wealth, better status and unending luxuries forgetting
that one day we will have to leave all these worldly gains and present ourselves
in the Court of our God empty-handed.
The biggest sin we are committing is our hatred and contempt for our fellow
beings. We, with our wrong notion and unreasonable perception of religion, have
made this world ‘a vast vale of tears’ where religion with its numerous sects
playing havoc with human life and honour. We are killing one another in the name
of God to seek His mercy and an elegant place in the heaven. How paradoxical
conviction it is that we are sowing thorns to cultivate roses!
Our minds are being polluted and contaminated by the ignorant Mullah. These
satanic minds have made religion their ladder to reach and achieve their
personal interests and worldly pomp and show. They are misguiding us by
narrating to us concocted stories and luring us imperceptibly to killing and
plundering other people who belong to different religions or sects in order to
go to heaven.
This is against the teachings of Islam. The essence of our religion is love and
peace created by following Moral Norms. Love, justice, truthfulness, compassion,
loyalty, generosity, dignity, restraint, politeness, friendliness, devotion to
duty, discipline, equality, care of the aged, helping one’s relatives, regard
for neighbours, loyalty to friends, aiding the weak, the destitute and the
orphans, and nursing the sick are some of the qualities that help us endear
ourselves to our God.
So our New Year Resolution should be
Follow Moral Norms
To live in peace and let others live in peace